Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
House is seperate from the farm. Plot is in my wifes and my own name. Around £900/sq m. Around 30% deposit
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Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
I was under the impression you needed 40% deposit to build a house these days
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
Is that from a green field to turn key or did you have to do anything yourself?
How much would be materials and how much labour?
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
ive never measured my house how much roughly to build a reasonable sized 4 bedroom house average spec?
Really is a how long is s piece of string question
You can do it really cheap or spend absolute fortunes ! All down to spec
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
would 250k be about right for a middle of the road 4 bed, maybe 200k min?
Quite posible, less even maybe
But you could also spend x5 that spec dependant so be aware !
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Moved house twice. got married in 2013 and moved into a small bungalow that belongs to her Granda which was tiny old house just (one bedroom).
Along came baby no. 1 so we then bought a house a mile from the farm last year and moved in a week before christmas. after spending a month or so redecorating and trying to get cigarette smell out of it.
No doubt we'll move again at some point but I've sold alot of crap on ebay this past year since we moved trying to De clutter. we were at a car boot sale which was pretty pointless as everybody seemed to want everything for free. Don't like to dump perfectly good items so everything else has went to the charity shop
Along came baby no. 1 so we then bought a house a mile from the farm last year and moved in a week before christmas. after spending a month or so redecorating and trying to get cigarette smell out of it.
No doubt we'll move again at some point but I've sold alot of crap on ebay this past year since we moved trying to De clutter. we were at a car boot sale which was pretty pointless as everybody seemed to want everything for free. Don't like to dump perfectly good items so everything else has went to the charity shop
Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
Your probably right by the time you add 10-15% contingency
Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
I cleared the site and access and will do sewer works. Thats the build cost. Add fees for this and that, electricty, water and phone connections and it gets a bit scarey!! Really scarey!
Robw54
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- Location
- derbyshire
Moved 9 times and never paid a 'professional'. Last time to farm took about a month with cars, trailers and horsebox.
- Location
- West Kent
Depends how hands on you want to be. If you do a lot of the work yourself and build something quite simple then maybe around £800 / sq m. A 4 bedroom house will be around 180 sq m so around £150,000 is possible. That is assuming a level-ish site with good ground conditions, a standard build type, and building a rectangular 2 storey house with a standard pitched roof.
- Location
- south norfolk
Hope its not the latter
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Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
Heres our wind and water tight
You normaly can if your building your own home it's one of the exceptions. It's on the gov website that you still can.
I did....
https://www.homebuilding.co.uk/calculator/
Or other sites
Basic rule of thumb £750-£1000 per m2
Your only about 30-40% done when you get it wind and water tight.....that is when the expensive trades start.
If your on a tight budget stick to simple shapes like a square box this will keep roof costs and labour down.
I built my own a few years ago, it's a very highly insulated house, i.e. Passive....
200mm cavities, triple glazed, ground source heat pump.
The best advise I would give anyone is insulate to the max don't go for 100mm cavities it cost little to nothing extra to go for 200mm plus then get them blown filled with platinum eps beads before plaster. (Internally)
It took 2 lorry loads to do mine but our heating bill is less than zero, we earn £240 a month from RHI and our only bill is our electric which is £86 a month all in. My heating bill is like only part of that.
I had 300mm of eps under the ground floorslab, and the roof had external
Kingspan rock wool between rafter, internal kingspan.
I also went for air tight, with heat recovery, and passive summer cooling ground pipe setup, it's all money up front but the pay back is very cheap running costs.
My air test got the best result our council and ever had with a 1.
Say that it's a 3 story 5 bed house, and the closest other test was a 1.5 for a one room apartment.....was buy their words outstanding results.
I maybe spent more up front say £500 on air tighting stuff, general tapes and membranes, but the pay back over the next 25 years will save me hundreds of times the amount I spent.
my final advise is get a good heating engineer, if your going for RHI and ground source. As daft as this sounds the spec of the underfloor heating making sure it's 5 star rated!! Will max your return, I installed my own to a plan. Which saved me £2000 but it was designed to be 5 star rated which it was it doubled my payments from the scheme, anyone wanting a good reference for a ground source heating installer let me know.
I spent around £220k on a 268m2 house the total is the total floor area so mine is 104+104+60 over the 3 floors space doesn't cost much walls do or sometimes the lack of them if you need lots of steel.
And I was high spec. But did a lot of the work. I mean a lot......
I also have a great supplier for granite worktops, that's based at Retford.
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
is this a 4 bedroom? what squared m is this house and rough total build cost? thanks